Re: Git Packaging Round 2: When to Salsa

[Ansgar <ansgar@debian.org>]

Matt Zagrabelny writes:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 4:09 PM Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de> wrote:
>> Why do all things need a recommendation? List the possible places to
>> host a repository with their advantages/disadvantages. If somebody is
>> not able to decide where to put a package based on that, they might not
>> be able to maintain it anyway.
>>
>
> Having sensible recommendations reduces the barrier to entry. Even if you
> provide a list with all the pros/cons there is still a decision to be made.
> Every decision that needs to be made is a barrier. Reading and
> understanding, research and applying context, contemplating and making
> decisions.

Then the best recommendation is probably "find a team to maintain the
package in" and, if that really doesn't work for some reason, "try to
find a team maintaining similar packages (language, domain) and consider
following whatever they do" to make it easier to interact with these
people when asking for advice or so.

Ansgar